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(Hybrid Role - Based In Manchester); Want to work in one of Manchester's most vibrant, fast-growing tech businesses? My client is an award-winning people management software company that is going through phenomenal growth, with newly opened offices in Canada, New Zealand and Australia! We are looking for a Frontend Developer who possess an ability to work in cross-functional product teams, in a truly agile way, delivering small increments of value to our customers very frequently. You will have experience of REST, JSON and know how to build clean architecture with TDD and BDD for mobile platforms.

Job Purpose

To collaborate with the PO, business analyst, and QA to plan, build release and maintain software features that deliver business value.

Dimensions

Identification of valuable features and implementing in software for projects and initiatives that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds of investment

Internal and External Relationships

Software development leads for other teams, developers, business analysts, product owners, user experience designers and graphic designers, solutions architect, database administrator, infrastructure architect

Other Contextual Information / Special Features

Possess an ability to work in cross-functional product teams, in a truly agile way, delivering small increments of value to our customers very frequently. Requires experience of REST, JSON and how to build clean architecture with TDD and BDD for mobile platforms.

Key Skills:

• Ensure that the initiative has a coherent Definition of Done and that your features are met
• Able to communicate a complicated problem succinctly accurately and coherently to a team with different skill sets.
• Exhibit cross functional behaviour and support other competencies within the company
• Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency and longer-term maintenance costs
• Demonstrate, discuss and permeate current good practice in the skills specific to your professional family across other members of your professional family
• Propose new technology, process or tooling to improve efficiency being aware of the future maintenance costs and consistency across other product teams

Day to Day Responsibilities

• You make realistic commitments that you are confident of meeting and strive to do so.
• Maintain and improve engineering practice
• Maintain and improve software quality for features built (TDD, Pairing, Peer Review, Static Analysis)
• Support the product owner and Development Lead in the provision of estimates that are at an appropriate level of fidelity for the phase in the development lifecycle
• Support the QA in identifying describing and resolving defects
• Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements
• You take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of delivery from idea, marketing, sales and operation
• Manage your own training requirements
• Attend industry events and share the value with your colleagues

Employee Benefits:

• Uncapped monthly commission
• Daily, weekly and monthly incentives
• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
• Day off on your birthday
• Perkbox discounts
• Holidays increase after 2 and 5 years' service
• Pension Plan and Life Insurance
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Company incentives, access to discount schemes
• Annual Profit share bonus

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